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A Natural Experiment on Innovation Without Patents
dc.contributor.author | Torrance, Andrew W. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-14T14:46:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-14T14:46:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-05-07 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17765 | |
dc.description.abstract | Innovation occurs within a complex web of law. Of the myriad legal doctrines that affect innovation, the most directly relevant is intellectual property, particularly patent law. The United States Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, states a strong public policy goal for the granting of patents (and copyrights) to inventors: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” Despite the Founding Fathers’ apparent faith in the societal benefits afforded by patent protection, a crescendo of recent critics have accused the patent system of complicating, slowing, or even thwarting innovation. Patents certainly present significant hurdles for open and user innovation. Moreover, von Hippel (2005) and Strandburg (2008) have demonstrated that user innovators, especially individuals, tend to be poorly served, and often harmed, by the patent system. | en_US |
dc.relation.hasversion | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2605055 | en_US |
dc.title | A Natural Experiment on Innovation Without Patents | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Torrance, Andrew | |
kusw.kudepartment | Law | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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